I have not had a chance to blog my fantasy season this year. Thats a crying shame because I had a fantastic season. I got out out of my friend Michael Birk's league and just played 2 leagues this year. My "home" league, SFFL and the Guinness football league with my friend Robert Wade. I won the Super Bowl in the Guinness league and took home some serious cash. I made it to the semi-final in SFFL. My record was 10-3 and 9-4 in Guinness and SFFL respectively. Thats 73% winning percentage across 2 leagues with one SB ring. Pretty nice!
Most of the success was directly due to the changes I made to my draft strategy. Hate to take credit like that, but I did approach things differently and put in some serious work in to draft preparation this year. The draft itself was smooth since I had condensed all the data in to a couple of cheat-sheets. I still made a couple of mistakes in both leagues. In SFFL, I was hurried in to picking Kurt Warner as my backup, but he had the same bye week as my starter Brett Favre. The other mistake was missing out on T.J. Houshmandzadeh when I think I had a chance to draft him. In the other league, I did get TJ, but the 2 mistakes were Alge Crumpler and the Giants Defense. Nothing wrong with either picks, but Yahoo picked them for me since I was fumbling around and the time ran out on me.
One interesting anecdote was from my championship team. I made a HUGE mistake by dropping Alge Crumpler, one of the top TEs in the league. I was the second guy in the waiver wire and I thought I could release Alge to manage some bye week issues and get him back thru the waiver. Little did I realize that I can't pick up my own players thru the waiver. He had to clear waivers before I can get him back and there was no way Alge clears waivers. So I was pretty down and was just hoping that didn't hurt me. I went with a Erron Kinney/Ben Troupe combo from Tennessee Titans and probably lost a few points including in the Super Bowl when Ben Troupe gave me 0 pts. But here's the kicker. I won the Semi-finals against BCAPS by a point and Ben Troupe gave me 16.60. With Alge, I would have definitely started him and lost that game. Luckily I didn't need the TE in the Super Bowl. But with Alge, I would have never gotten there though he had good game in week 16. I guess God wanted me to win :-)
Anyways, I had 2 great teams they are captured here for posterity. These are the season-ending rosters.
Guinness - Indian Devils (CHAMPS)
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C. Palmer (Cin - QB)
T. Holt (StL - WR)
T. Houshmandzadeh (Cin - WR)
A. Boldin (Ari - WR)
L. Tomlinson (SD - RB)
C. Williams (TB - RB)
B. Troupe (Ten - TE)
B. Finneran (Atl - WR)
K. Curtis (StL - WR)
M. Moore (Min - RB)
J. Bettis (Pit - RB)
E. Kinney (Ten - TE)
J. McCown (Ari - QB)
J. Feely (NYG - K)
Denver (DEF)
SFFL - Pikkalis
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Favre, Brett (QB GB)
Barber, Tiki (RB NYG)
Williams, Cadillac (RB TB)
Boldin, Anquan (WR ARI)
Smith, Jimmy (WR JAC)
Kinney, Erron (TE TEN)
Wilkins, Jeff (K STL)
Patriots, (DST NE)
McCown, Josh (QB ARI)
James, Edgerrin (RB IND)
Evans, Lee (WR BUF)
Jones, Matt (WR JAC)
Colts, (DST IND)
Burleson, Nate (WR MIN)
Martin, David (TE GB)
